Dear ACMS members and friends,
The deadline to apply for the NEH Summer Institute on Modern Mongolia has been extended to March 15th, 2016. Please help us spread the word about this incredible opportunity to spend June studying a rapidly changing Mongolia, at the historic campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
This program is meant to support college and university-level educators who work with US students. US citizens, resident aliens, and foreign nationals may be eligible if they are teaching at US institutions. Community colleges are welcome to apply, and other institutions may also be eligible.
Graduate students can also apply! Up to two participants can be graduate students currently working towards a degree.
Applicants don't have to be Mongolia specialists. They simply should be interested in exploring Modern Mongolia through the humanities, with plans to carry institute goals into future curriculum and/or programs.
The program is tuition free,
and participants receive a stipend for housing and travel. Applications
are due by March 15th, 2016.
Please see below for full details.
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“Modern Mongolia: Heritage and Tradition Amid Changing Realities” is a four-week NEH Summer Institute (June 6-July 1, 2016) designed to provide 25 undergraduate university and college educators
with resources needed to be able to expand curricular offerings in
East, Inner, or Central Asian Studies. The question of how Modern
Mongolia is navigating its place in the world will be explored through
the humanities; art, literature, music, and dance provide useful lenses
to view how cultures in Mongolia are changing and still yearning for the
past. The Institute will engage educators with stimulating
presentations, materials, and discussions, and provide them with
necessary tools to build draft course modules tailored to their
institutional and individual teaching circumstances. Ultimately, we
strive to provide context to enable teaching about a changing Mongolia.
The Co-Directors are David Dettmann, US Director of the ACMS, and
Academic Lead Morris Rossabi, Distinguished Professor of History, City
University of New York and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia
University. Rossabi’s books include The Mongols and Global History, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists, and Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times.
David Dettmann is an experienced professional who promotes Asian Area
Studies through the ACMS and the Center for East Asian Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Summer Institute will be held at the American Center for Mongolian
Studies (ACMS) on the historic campus of the University of Pennsylvania,
in Philadelphia. Now Receiving Applications: Deadline extended to March 15th, 2016 Includes: Free Tuition and a $3,300 Stipend to defray housing and transportation expenses. For questions, please contact David Dettmann via email at ddettmann@mongoliacenter.org or by phone at (215)573-4204. For more details about the Summer Institute, visit the website at http://mongoliacenter.org/neh_summer_institute
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in
this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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